[5] This caused friction between Smith and the QRL's Ron McAuliffe, a dispute which would resurface during preliminary discussions about a potential State of Origin series between Queensland and New South Wales.
[1][3] From 1985, Smith co-hosted the national game show It's a Knockout with Fiona MacDonald on Network 10 which was filmed on location at Dural in New South Wales until noise complaints from local residents shut down production in 1987.
[11] Smith was later replaced by Chris Bombolas before the program was later axed in favour of the station taking the Sydney version of The Footy Show.
[12] He didn't regain consciousness and died at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital on 27 February 2019 when his family turned off his life support machine.
[15] After his death, he was posthumously inducted into Lang Park's Media Hall of Fame by Queensland sports minister Mick de Brenni.